Among the models favoured by the Pléiade were Pindar, Anacreon, Alcaeus and other poets of the Greek Anthology, as well as Virgil, Horace and Ovid.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

* Greek Lyric 1: Sappho and Alcaeus.

* A. M. Miller, Greek Lyric: Alcaeus, many fragments.

Horatian odes follow conventions of Horace ; the odes of Horace deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.

Amphitryon (, gen .: Ἀμφιτρύωνος ; usually interpreted as " harassing either side "), in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis.

Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

A fragment of Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of the 6th century BC, refers to this episode:

In the prevalent Greek form of his name, Smerdis, the Persian name has been assimilated to the Greek ( Asiatic ) name Smerdis or Smerdies, a name which also occurs in the poems of Alcaeus and Anacreon.

# Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus and Theocritus have σδ for Attic-Ionic ζ. Contra: The tradition would not have invented this special digraph for these poets if was the normal pronunciation in all Greek.

Aeolic Greek is most widely known for being the language of the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.

* L142 ) Greek Lyric Poetry: Volume I. Sappho and Alcaeus

* Alcaeus ( mythology ), one of several figures of this name in Greek mythology

* Alcaeus of Messene, a Greek epigrammatist of the late 3rd / early 2nd century BC

In Greek mythology, Alcaeus or Alkaios () was the name of a number of different people:

Horace, whose career crossed the divide between republic and empire, followed Catullus ' lead in employing Greek lyrical forms, identifying with Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Alcaic stanzas, and also with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus tradition ( in which he adopted the metrical form of the Epode or ' Iambic Distich ').

He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry ( Alcaeus, Alcman, Sappho etc .).

The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.

Two of the nine lyric poets in the Ancient Greek canon, Alcaeus and Sappho, were from Lesbos.

* Poems by Alcaeus English translations

* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus ( later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece ); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved ;

* Myrsilus-it is not known when he came to power but some verses by Alcaeus ( frag.

* Pittacus-the dominant political figure of his time, he was voted supreme power by the political assembly of Mytilene and appears to have governed well ( 590-580 BC ), even allowing Alcaeus and his faction to return home in peace.

Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

* Love songs: Almost all Alcaeus ' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by Quintilian above, have vanished without trace.

The hymn to Hermes, fr308 ( b ), was quoted by Hephaestion ( grammarian ) and both he and Libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. 350, celebrating the return from Babylon of Alcaeus ' brother.

The first separate edition of Alcaeus was by Christian David Jani and it was published at Halle in 1780.

* James S. Easby-Smith The Songs of Alcaeus ( 1901 ) W. H. Lowdermilk and Co., Washington-digitalized by Google: biography, history of criticisms, history of editions / publications, translations of fragments, commentary etc.

Sappho and Alcaeus ( poet ) | Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1881 ).

A tendency to imitate other poets is not peculiar to Bacchylides, however – it was common in ancient poetry, as for example in a poem by Alcaeus ( fragment 347 ), which virtually quotes a passage from Hesiod ( Works and Days 582 – 8 ).

She married Alcaeus and had children by him: Amphitryon, Anaxo, and Perimede.

Among the models favoured by the Pléiade were Pindar, Anacreon, Alcaeus, Horace and Ovid.

" It contained poems by the compiler himself and forty-six other poets, including Archilochus, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Simonides.

* Athanasius Select Resources, Bilingual Anthology ( in Greek original and English )

* Michael J. Mikoś, Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century: a Bilingual Anthology, Warsaw, Constans, 1999.